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| † see also: wader |
The calidrids and their allies are a group of Arctic breeding, strongly migratory wading birds. These birds form huge mixed flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. They are the typical "peeps", small to medium-sized, long-winged and relatively short-billed.
Their bills have sensitive tips which enable them to locate buried prey items, which they typically seek with restless running and probing.
There are a number of species closely related to the calidrids which are listed after the main list.
Species are:
Family: Scolopacidae
- Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris
- Red Knot[?], Calidris canutus
- Sanderling[?], Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri
- Red-necked Stint, Calidris ruficollis
- Little Stint[?], Calidris minuta
- Temminck's Stint[?], Calidris temminckii
- Long-toed Stint, Calidris subminuta
- Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper[?], Calidris melanotos
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata
- Curlew Sandpiper[?], Calidris ferruginea
- Purple Sandpiper[?], Calidris maritima
- Rock Sandpiper, Calidris ptilocnemis
- Dunlin[?], Calidris alpina
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
- Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus
- Stilt Sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis
- Ruff[?], Philomachus pugnax
- Surfbird, Aphriza virgata